One of these "not all it seems" type film which I fell asleep twice watching.

A boy gets gunned down in front of a nightclub and his girlfriend gets killed in a hit and run. Could these two incidents be in any way be connected? Of course they are. Obviously, it ends up being some conspiracy which reaches the higher echelons of power.

The fact I fell asleep twice during this didn't matter. I'm not sure if they were micro-naps as I didn't seem to miss anything much. It didn't matter anyway as it's all explained in full detail at the end.

People get shot, there are drugs, coppers and all the rest of it. I'm not sure if Twenty8k is the name of the gang that controls the drugs in this film or the budget of the film.

I only watched it because it's got Kaya Scodelario in it. She's great but not in it that much. I was awake when she was on.

Edited by beastmaster at 17:41:41 03-01-2013

The Resident Evil films. I'm one of the reasons they keep making them.

Still pimping Cloud Atlas to everyone. It's been with me all day. Showed the trailer to several people at work, and had a lump in my throat just from that. Absolutely stunning film, day one purchase when the bluray hits the shelves.

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Still pimping Cloud Atlas to everyone. It's been with me all day. Showed the trailer to several people at work, and had a lump in my throat just from that. Absolutely stunning film, day one purchase when the bluray hits the shelves.

I'll be staggered if this is any good. A really great book but one that doesn't obviously lend itself to film...

The ending still pisses me off, but the last two thirds is just pure great cinema spectacle. Really engrossed by pi and richard parker antics. Beginning, whilst needed, is a bit clunky, but the whole film is def worth a watch.

I really enjoyed this, I loved the books as a kid and really liked the way the characters were brought to life. Technically it's superb, fairly predictable but I can't see that they could have done much better with the source material except maybe a bit more of the humour.

This film takes the whole concept of Paranormal Activity, makes it mobile, adds a bit of extreme gore in here and there and totally removes any scares. So, this means the film is about as scary as an episode of A Question Of Sport.

The setup in done in such a way that there three (or four, I can't remember) different stories with one person recording events with a VHS camera. So it can throw everything and the kitchen sink into it and copy as many (much superior but still not that good) films as it possibly can.

Out in the woods, a party gone wrong, the webcam stuff, a group sex thing, someone in the room while you are sleeping and burglars in the house. All of these seem to go on forever. (It's six not four! I'm already trying to forget!).

There is one neat idea on the webcam episode which has nothing to do with the scares and involves a hidden tracking device.

The only decent horror film I've seen that uses a documentary/footage style is The Last Exorcism. You're much better off watching that instead.

The Resident Evil films. I'm one of the reasons they keep making them.

Just watched Plague Dogs, a cartoon by the same director as Watership Down also based on a book by Richard Adams. The animation has a similar attention to detail, and Hazel (John Hurt) is now a Jack Russell called Snitter. There are a number of other famous English actors of a certain generation there too, if you keep your ears open for it. To compare it to Watership Down, it's also a tale of man's impact on the widlerness, though this time told via domestic animals, not wild ones. While it's got most of what made Watership Down work, it doesn't have an analogue for rabbit mythology voiced by Michael Hordern, which I miss, and doesn't have as good a soundtrack, but it's definitely worth checking out for anyone who enjoyed the earlier film. 89%